Tag: Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Women’s virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
Francois de La Rochefoucauld